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Saving the ethnopharmacological heritage of Samoa

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dc.contributor.author Cox, Paul Alan
dc.date.accessioned 2021-12-01T03:19:03Z
dc.date.available 2021-12-01T03:19:03Z
dc.date.issued 1993
dc.identifier.uri ${sadil.baseUrl}/handle/123456789/889
dc.description pp. 181-188 ; 29cm en_US
dc.description.abstract Early European visitors to Samoa tended to denigrate the authenticity and efficacy of Samoan herbal medicine, yet bioassays indicate pharmacological activity in over 86% of Samoan medicinal plants. Novel anti-inflammatory compounds have been isolated from Alphitonia zyzyphoides and Erythrina variegata, and the anti-HIV compound prostratin has been isolated from Homalanthus nutans. Unfortunately, both Samoan ethnopharmacology and Samoan rain forests are threatened. In order to prevent logging, funds were raised to build a needed village school in exchange for a village covenant to protect the 30,000 acre Falealupo forest. Subsequently, four additional rainforest reserves have been established. Hopefully such conservation measures can save the ethnopharmacological knowledge of Samoa en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Department of Botany, Brigham Young University en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Article in Journal of Ethnopharmacology;Volume 38
dc.subject Samoan - ethnobotany en_US
dc.subject Pharmacognosy en_US
dc.subject Rainforest conservation - Samoa en_US
dc.subject Medicinal plants - Samoan islands en_US
dc.subject Conservation of natural resources - Samoa en_US
dc.subject Traditional medicine - Samoan islands en_US
dc.title Saving the ethnopharmacological heritage of Samoa en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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